Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-05-28
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A new sect has appeared in Michi-
gan, one of its tenets being that paid
ministry is ungodly.
1t is said that ssLotta' is making
new venture. This time in the literary
world as the author of novel.
Georgia prohibitionists want the
state to pass a law to require $40, 900
license fee on ''family wine-rooms."
Sarah Bernhardt, while in Buenos
Ayres not long ago, was presented with
the title deeds for tract of land ten
miles square in the Argentine Repub-
lie.
Up to date the state capitol at AL
bany has cost New York taxpayers
$18, 100000, while the national capitol
at Washington has cost but $1S, S,000,-
900.
Frank Hickey, of Ogden, Utah,
forged dispatch to stop shipments of
oysters to his rival in the oyster busi-
ness, and is now held for trial in bonds
of 81 900.
On street in Bluehill, Me-, less
than half mile long, live fifteen
widows No man has ever been bold
enough to pass along that street after
dish wash-up.
Until the publication of his divorce
notice the other day, nobody knew
certain socially accepted man in New
York city was married, and my! how
the people talk now.
In the lower Brule agency in Dakota
the Indians have church and four
chapels. One hundred of their number
are members of the church, in which
they take great pride.
William Tabor, Pennsylvania,
made fun of the big trees in the Yosem-
ite Valley, and John Ashton, guide,
felt it his duty to stab the scoffer
twice in the right arm.
The superintendent of the public
schools at Buffalo has been censured by
the New York civil-service commission
for appointing teachers without COM
petive examination.
The number of weekly and daily
newspapers in the United States
amounts in round numbers to 12,800,
exclusive of vast number of monthly
anu quarterIy PcrIUurvonS'
Owing to ill-feeling growing out of
a suit at law the chief of police at
Tombstone, A. T., searched most Of
the. men in town for concealed
weapons and found only one toy pis-
tol. 4
A man in Ontario can repeat perfect
ly 166 chapters of the bible, ffty-eight
psalms, and every collect, epistle and
gospel in the ecclesiastical year, ac-
cording to the English church prayer
book.
When asked his opinion about legis-
lating against the liquor traffic, Fran
els Murphy, the blue ribbon temper
ance evangelist, remarked: "If legisla-
ton would save people, Moses would
have been Christ"
This is the way that New England
lover of winter sports announced the
new year: Eighteen hundred eighty-six
toboggans slide down the slide of time
tonight at IL o'clock, and 1887 begins
its flight down the steep declivity.
Dainty cards announcing new ar
rivals in fashionable families are now
sent out to those supposed to be interest
ed in the event, and from whom sil-
yer cup. coral beads, spoon, or an ann
ber necklace may. be expected, per-
haps.
President Arthur used to say that
the first money he ever earned was $40
or $25 for writing the biography of .
temperance lecturer. He had forgot
ten the name of the lecturer, but the
Troy Budget has recently discovered
that it was Hamilton.
The telephone is put to new and
convenient use in Brussels. Gentle
men who wish to rise early, but don't
like to, can have row of little bells
along the edge of their beds, which
ring viciously, until they rise and stop
the disturbance.
New York heirs are taking steps
toward securing the English estate Of
John Sands who died in this country
some time during the eighteenth CEN
tury. 1t is valued at $4,000, 900,
and If not claimed before January l..
1889, 1t will escheat to the crown Of
England.
The difficulty Of sighting rifles in the
dark in warfare has been ingeniously
overcome by the use ofluminous paint.
A small luminous bead is clipped on to
the rifle over the foresight and an
other over the rear-sight when used at
night in reply to an enemy's fire, form
ing two luminous sights.
Senator Hearst, of California, owns
fine ranch of $4,000 acres at San
Simeon. 1t formerly belonged to the
great Mexican Castro family, but the
senator loaned the Castros SIS, 900 on
the property at the merely nominal 8
per cent month, it is said. and as O
natural consequences owns it now.
A gang Of colored boys in Indian
apolis have been making considerable
money by furnishing fur dealer there